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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ROUGH? YOU BET!-- Jarrel Wade, 16, of 916 NW 49, sat on the curb and told the police all about it Wednesday. His motor scooter had collided with a bread truck and skidded across the street at NW 24 and Harvey, Jarrell suffered pavement burns and bruises and will go to the family doctor for a check-up Thursday. Left to right are W. A. Williams, H. L. Loyd. police accident investigator and V. L. Connell, scout car officer. The bread truck driver, Leland T."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CROSS BEARER--Jesus falters in bearing the heavy cross to Calvary. In picture are Mary, Christ's mother, with arms outstretched : Mary Magdalene, comforting the Mother Mary: Mary and Martha back of Lazarus and Mary, wife of Cleophas, left."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Costumes are colorful in the "Fair Follies of '49," which opens the night of September 25 at the Oklahoma State Fair."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men were killed in this pickup truck Saturday when it crashed into a semi-trailer truck near Orlando, Logan county, on U.S. 77. Killed instantly was Cecil Humphrey, 2020 NE 16 Terrace. Murray J. Thornton, Albuquerque, NM., his passenger, died shortly after the accident in Perry General Hospital."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Four Evans, one of America's greatest dancing organizations , will be a featured attraction in the night grandstand show of the Oklahoma State Fair , September 24 to 30."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Injured and Booked Lynn Edward Cory, 17, of 300 N Redman, Bethany, was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when his motorcycle struck the left rear of this car at Grand and Shartel. Investigating officers booked Cory for reckless driving. They said he was traveling East on Grand and skidded his tires 100 feet before striking a city-owned auto driving by Frank Sarayski, 64, of 3608 Westmont. At Mercy hospital he was treated for a double fracture of his right arm, a deep cut on his upper lip and bruises."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Motorcycle officer is injured. SW 23 and Robinson. E.W. Lawson, motorcycle officer, chasing a blue ford north on Robinson, Lommie Ray Campbell, 16, of Duncan, OK (and says he is staying at 2314 NW 1st) ran a stop line at SW 23 and Robinson, Lawson hit the side of his car and throwing Lawson over the car wrecking his motorcycle. Lawson was taken to Mercy Hospital where it was found he had bruised left shoulder, both legs, but wasn't seriously hurt, Lommie Ray Campbell was booked for failure to yield the right of way and no state drivers license and investigation."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Clarence Andrews, an Oklahoma City truck driver, is in a critical condition in a Sulphur hospital of burns suffered in a three truck crash near Davis about midnight which also burned six members of the Davis fire department. The firemen were treated at the Sulphur hospital but their burns are not believed serious."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beautiful girls, beautiful costumes and great lighting, the mainstay of all night grandstand shows at the Oklahoma State Fair , will be here once more , September 24 to 30 ."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "City Man Killed, Family Hurt When Car Collides With Truck. Here's the way Autry Lee Watson, 24, died Friday in a traffic wreck near Moore. His body lies just outside the crumpled car door. Waiting for help nearby are his wife, Nedra, 19 ; their daughter, Kathy Jo, 11 months, and Watson's brother, Nathen, 13, in the foreground. The other were only slightly injured."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "School Bus Escapes Disaster in Truck Crash A bus load of school children and an El Reno truck driver escaped injury Monday morning when a trailer-truck crashed into a power pole, shown above, in the 6100 block NW 10. Lewis Luttrell, 29, the truck driver, climbed out of the cab as it burst into flames."

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert L. McCormick, 33, Sperry, was killed Thursday in the cab of his truck, left, when it crashed into a pipe-laden truck, right, on the Washita river bridge on U.S. 81, three miles north of Chickasha. A truck, driven by James D. Stewart, 29, of 3401 S Shields, stopped at the bridge approach to allow McCormick's truck to cross the bridge, and William Louis Hudler, 24, of 1241 SE 17, driving the pipe-laden truck, was unable to stop. McCormick was trapped inside the cab."

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